Much Abrew: Miraculous Mill (Modern)
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- Can a wheel heavy mill deck work in Modern? Let's find out!
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Last week during our Instant Deck Techs, it was the crazy Miraculous Mill deck for Modern that came out on top. As a result, we're heading back to Modern today to give mill another shot. If you've been following the series for a while, you'll know that last time we played a mill deck (Mono-Blue Mill), it was one of the all-time worst decks in Much Abrew history, so today's Miraculous Mill deck is looking to redeem the archetype! Oh yeah, a quick warning: I recorded this episode the morning after getting home (at 3 am) from Grand Prix Vegas, so if I'm a little loopy, it's a combination of a really long and fun week in Vegas and jet lag. Anyway, can the addition of red cards and some miracles make mill competitive in Modern? Let's get to the videos and find out!
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Definitely would have rather seen a non budget version of this deck
lol When affinity scoops because YOU'RE being to annoying!
Stang Geef they deserve it tho
lol, i run a waste not deck for modern where i get more salty scoops while i'm trying to figure out of i get to keep doing random grind and effect because of Burning Inquistion. the discard at random really salts people up
Hype to support playing Budgetless Miraculous Mill on stream!!
I like this deck just because it gives Seth a reasonable excuse to say "OK Deck. We need a miracle!" a bunch of times.
upgrade this deck and to an against the odds.
Game 1 ft. The Saltiest of Scoops.
Salt is a legitimate wincon.
This comment had me thinking Seth was going to scoop, but boy was I pleasantly surprised.
Chase's Channel Yeah I used to play a lot of tf2. Not so much anymore because my PC sucks.
Chase's Channel It is the red scout. I have a red demoman somewhere.
TH4T1DUD3 that scout profile pick is fucken sick and i love it!
"I'm just going to causally play 6 permants on turn 1 no big deal." -every affinity player ever.
ivellious209 I'm just going to casually play stony silence, sincerely, every white deck.
In response
i am sad
Cxxvii your sadness goes on the stack, I let it resolve, it finds no target, and you have to be happy.
Drake the troll * forced smile *
"premants" uhhhh permanents? lolol
The problem with wheel effects in this deck is that their decks have good cards and this one draws Jaces Erasure.
Yeah, we give our opponent a bunch of powerful stuff while we refuel on bad mill cards!
😆
I honestly have no idea how SO found this deck. It's a former Standard deck (that was moderately successful in Standard) that I ported to Modern (by the looks of it, without really changing the SB) that according to my deckfile I haven't updated since August 2014. It's not supposed to be a budget deck. It's not supposed to be a competitive deck. I don't think I've actually ever won a match with it in Modern. It's literally just a quick, bad, un-updated Modern port of an old Standard deck I liked. It looks like I played it once back in February to fill a 4 man M-L mini to lose as quickly as possible (the minis can't fire unless they have 4, so I usually pull a deck like this that I have fun playing with the full intention to lose 2-0). I do have an updated version of this IRL, but it's not really better - you can see the list here: www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/1164642#paper. There's no way to make this deck good, so don't bother adding money to it.
If you want to play a Mill deck that doesn't suck, I would recommend this list: mtgdecks.net/Modern/ub-glimpse-the-unthinkable-decklist-by-duckyninja-729009. It's not amazing (mill has its limits), but I've had moderate success with it at the FNM level and it's actually way more fun to play IMO. If you're looking for a quality super budget deck, you can go with www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/959278#paper (I don't have a SB built for it, I don't even have it sleeved, but it's a fun deck and it's super cheap and it does win some games). I have a lot of other really cool lists that are successful, so why he picked this one, I don't know.
Why don’t you have ghost quarters or field of ruins so you can have your opponents search their library if they don’t do that to themselves.
That’s a good idea
Budget.
Ian this is much abrew, and ghost quarter is .05 tix and field of ruin is .61 so they are both budget friendly.
Field of Ruin is, like, $3.
Listen the video and you'll know why...
Won against infect and eldrazi tron, that's just good enough to put a smile on my face. 😂 Well played Seth, you did great with miraculous mill. 👏
As an Esper Mill player, the deck would be a bit stronger if it was running Ghost Quarter. It helps again Tron, it cause them to double-take themselves before fetching on if you have Archive Trap or not.
Im a simple man. I see mill I click the video.
The laugh at 11:56
That mainly blue as fortold deck looked really sweet
ROFL @ OP's frustration scoop game 1. HAHAHA!!!
Jace's Eraser! Haha! XD You're the one and the only, Seth!
PS - M1 was among one of the most beautiful sites I've laid eyes on.
"Oh it's [insert any modern archetype]. That's bad for Miraculous Mill..."
Now that Psychic Corrosion is a thing, maybe revisiting this deck with using those instead of Jace's Erasure is a worthwhile plan.
This deck got better with Mystic Sanctuary. Getting back mill cards is good and putting Miracles on top is even better!
I like how derpy Jace looks in the thumbnail.
Please, upgrade a non-budget version of Miraculous Mill! Definitely want to see that
“Two marigolds in a row. Marigolds are such incredibly high variance cards.” - Soth, porblely better knomn as SarfonAlive
Corey Castelli "we've had bad milling experiences eye-n the past". Seriously? Who pronounces "in" as "eye-n"?
"Jace's Eraser"
This is my favorite basic island art, I run 4 foils of it in my legacy sneak and show deck
I think there was a way at 21:49 to use visions of beyond to get your library to 20 cards and devastation tide off of shelldock isle.
It would’ve been possible if he had tapped double mountains for Reforge the Soul instead of an island and a mountain or had not cast the Vapor Snag, but that’s such a fringe line of play that I don’t really blame him for not seeing it. Mad props to you for catching that though.
He already had 20. He just completely forgot that shelldock was there with the bounce under it.
Edit: Nevermind, Shelldock is 20 or fewer left, not 20 milled.
Mill is my favourite build. I started watching you because I saw a fun mill deck. This deck though....I feel you could make some major improvements to it if you had a crack at rebuilding it Seth.
I still have a modified version of your $94 ub mill deck - that one works reasonably well for me. Though there should be mentioned, it's now $214 due to Surgical Extraction price hike
Riverwise Augur would be a budget friendly way to setup the miracles if you accidentally draw into them.
Funny story, I actually have a similar deck to this already built... except instead of wheels, mine runs the Bant Enchantresses along with a lot of stuff like Utopia Sprawl and Ghostly Prison, standard enchantress stuff. I also run Sphinx's Erasure, which for 1 mana more is at least twice as effective as Jace's Erasure, and I'm genuinely not sure why you aren't.
miraculous simply the best!
Up to the test when things go wrong!
Miraculous! The Milliest!
The power of blue mill, always so strong!
Miraculous!
I remember playing this deck when it was standard legal, though my version splashed green for fog and rites of flourishing.
As soon as the list popped up I fell in love.....Why....Why would you do this to me?
In the last game against U Living End, you had a chance if you just activated Shelldock Isle, but you just kept passing for like 4 turns in a row instead!
This one was pretty brutal.
Beating Tron without tron hate... Has got to be Seth's highlight of the week... Still needs field of ruin... I wouldn't even consider that as part of the upgrades... It should have been in the first draft
Yeah, especially with how clunky the manabase is missing out on Field of Ruin is a big oversight.
11:45 flex seal of approval
Can we please see a non-budget version of this deck? With JtMS instead of bad mill jace to brainstorm the miracles back to the top of your deck and fetch/shocks etc.
This deck screams Grixis all around. Besides the surgical and the lands you mentioned, I would include 2 Notion Thieves for maximum wheel value, as well as maximum JTMS nerfing.
Black adds a lot to a mill deck.
Hey Seth! Are u going to try Desecrated Tomb against the odds? I think you can build a relative fun deck with tormod's crypt, nihil spellbomb, Crypt Incursion and a lot of self-mill
When you see bonfire of the damned and think it's a reforge the soul then eat it hard.
@MTGGoldfish
Could we do another series of this with additions of Riverwise Augur and Field of ruin, if you're gonna stay budget.
I feel like riverwise augur and field of ruin would have completely changed the consistency of the deck. Augur gives a body to block on top of resetting miracles, field/ghost hits archive traps.
I'd also like to see a full $$ money list just to see how it would work, with moons, Jaces, maybe snaps? list is nice.
Miraculous "I think this is a bad matchup" Mill
I'm not sure we have any good matchups, unless we can get our opponent to rage quit.
ahahahhahahaha...
Still, love this deck and all of your videos man, keep up the good work, you're the best!!
42:52 Don't use the vapor snag on infect's only creature. Wait for them to attack, use all their pump spells, and THEN use the vapor snag. That could have won the game.
Only Seth could face 4 straight decks without fetchlands holding a grip full of Archive Traps..
Tron game was just too funny
You had me at mill.
If there were a British SaffronOlive, he would call it "Jace's Rubber".
"Jaces eraser" Dammit seth
Hey Seth I like your choice of islands, did you know Randy Elliot lives in upstate N.Y. too?
The Affinity scoop fuels my soul
Dylan Yeats what's a soul?
I'm surprised this deck isn't running Wheel of Fate as a slow-rolled wheel effect. The card is like $4 and would be infinitely better than the Archivist imo.
Maybe we can play an As Foretold version of mill with Wheel of Fate.
If your tryin to keep it budget Riverwize Augur might help with the miracles in place of the best jace at least you would be able to reset them if drawn
Affinity player be like: I thoughtseize your smelt and then scoop to the other card you had in hand
You should have feild of ruin to force your opponets to shuffle to trigger archive trap.
Out with the archivist, in with the brainstorm, deck will run a thousand times better.
FelipeWalker2 Brainstorm is not Modern legal.
Jace's Oath could substitute.
I think this deck really needs the play set of Jaces Erasure.
I don't understand why not use Sphinx's Tutelage! its 1 more mana but doubles the efficience of Jace's erasure. At least 1/2?
Yeah, I'm a Sphinx's Tutelage fan as well.
MTGGoldfish Good substitute for Archivist.
Ghost Quarters would do good with Archive Trap in this deck.
Agreed!
lol i just played against this deck. I play dredge so when i saw the hideaway land hit i got super happy. Also a tip for anyone that plays this deck, do not devastation tide when your opponent has a large board with a conflagration in the graveyard. I also had a full hand and my opponent was at 10.
Jace's Archivist seems bad here. Being the only creature in your deck, it's just a lightning rod for otherwise dead removal from your opponents.
True, but it gives a repeatable wheel effect, if opponents keep in creature removal just to deal with it then that takes away spaces for better sideboard cards, and if they take out all creature removal for counters it gives a way to work around them.
Bloodfire83 Seems like it should be in the sideboard for when opponents side out creature removal.
Bloodfire83 Sphinxe's Tutelage would've been better than Archivist, would leave opponents with dead creature removal cards.
Jace's Oath would be nice here as well.
Why didn’t you run Jace’s Pencilcase? It combos really well with Jace’s Eraser.
I still don't see why there's no Sphinx's Tutelage in here.
lol he takes the smelt and then shame quits when he loses his board to bonfire
Games starts at 3:58
Are there modern leagues dedicated to budget decks?
I'd normally like to see a deck perform at its utmost efficiency with the card choice and then just provide the budget version.
There are no budget tournaments that I know if, it would be sweet though.
35:22 - no, that puts more cards in their library :)
Great video love mil. Especially blue red.
Thanks!
3:58
thank you good sir
It's a bit high costing for this deck, but could Fraying Sanity work in here too?
Unbudget this sucker and play it on stream!
Worldslayer Against the Odds
Haha first match that player was ultra salty !!!
No damping sphere? Not sure about that. It's pretty budget, so the creator easily could've put it in.
What kind of eraser does Jace use? Pentel? PaperMate? Does he prefer white or pink?
twincast would be awesome
Isnt this much abrew rather than budget?
It is, but this is the deck everyone wanted!
Is it possible to do it without the budget mana base and with the other cards in it? Cuz I can see that this deck would have legs with main board sugicals and what not. Maybe shock lands idk. But I definitley agree that this deck needs at least main board surgicals.
Also, for non-budget, the mana is awful... truly awful...
He also called this an against the odds deck during the video. Covering all the bases!
Is there a reason this deck runs jace's erassure instead of Sphinx's tutalage?
The deck is a bit TOO spicy in the name of "budget" imo. Would have been a lot more enjoyable to watch if you had a couple upgrades, namely ghost quarters/field of ruin and relics over tormod's. Perhaps go 3-2 or 2-2 erasure-sphinx's tutelage as well, get more mill from your wheels and whatnot.
But yeah, DEFINITELY need a way to force them to search their library if you're running archive traps and only 2 colors
Why not play field of ruin or ghost quarter for janky archive trap
Dat very first hand xD and opponent xD
11:54 is literally the best sound ever
Lol that game 1 ragequit. Why he even scoop. Oh no I have to play all my 0 mana cards again.
I saw this deck last night and beat it 1-1 and had to bail on the last game due to a thunderstorm. DuskMantle Mindcrank UB is best mill.
Why is there no Noxious Revival in this deck?!?
11:56 best maniacal laughing
Why vapor snag over just unsummon? How often are you winning with damage as opposed to having the option to save your own archivist? (written before watching the gameplay)
I think the correct choice is actually Boomerang since it can bounce lands (and then we can Wheel them away). Helps against Tron and creaturelands.
Why no bolts in a control deck?
I wanted to see the archive traps game 1
Realizes erasure targets after playing a coupe of matches with it while targeting the opponent.
No Dream Salvage!? In this deck it's almost like a 1 mana draw 14! (which then would mill another 14!)
Hmm, I've never played a Dream Salvage deck, we'll have to try it sometime!
Here's my submission for a fishbowl Thursday deck. It uses Wheel of Fate and Dream Salvage to storm off and to activate Runeflare Trap.
deckstats.net/decks/76226/935138-runeflare-storm
A Jace TMS or Riverwise Augur surely could have helped this deck out a little bit?
Even just an Index.
Ross Balch budget and too slow, respectivelu
Not sure about Index, but Jace (and maybe Riverwise too, for miracles) seem like good additions.
Game One!❤️😀❤️❤️
"no sideboard against tron" - doesn't sideboard smelt against a witchbane orb
Please do another non budget version
Any reason for smelt? Not vandalbalst
Budget I guess?
Why no sphinx's tutelage and fraying sanity for faster mill?
I think that plan might be more effective, but it's less cool!
Thought collapse from m19!
Why not play a couple fraying sanitys in the deck?
Wouldn't Scrabbling claws be better than Crypt?
Maybe, the problem with Claws is that is can only hit one card. Relic is nice since it has the flexibility to eat one card or to eat everything.
Why no Sphix Tutelage? I am very curious
We didn't actually build this one, it's an instant deck tech deck.
I am kind of new to the channel, so i didnt knew you played the deck exactly as it was send to you ( which is pretty cool and unique ) i thought you would build upon the archtype. So i have to ask whoever made this, why no sphyx? hahah